# gan
## Translingual
### Symbol

gan
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Gan.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Gan terms

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡæn/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æn

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

gan
* (archaic) simple past of gin

### Etymology 2

Probably a variant of gang, from Middle English gangen, from Old English gangan (“to step; walk; go”).

#### Alternative forms

* gang

#### Verb

gan (third-person singular simple present gans, present participle gannin, simple past went or gan, past participle gone)
* (Northumbria) To go.
** 2011, Chris Dockerty, Ramblings of a Geordie:The one problem I had here was my broad Geordie accent which the teachers tried their hardest to make me lose. I couldn't understand their problem with it because I could understand myself. Whenever I told them, "Am gannin yem", they would say, "No, Christopher. It's not "am gannin yem", it's "I am going home".

### Further reading

* Frank Graham, editor (1987), “GAN”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
* Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “gan”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎, archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
* Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977
* “Gan”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎, archived from the original on 2024-09-05, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.
* Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
* Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “gan”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.

### Anagrams

* AGN, ANG, GNA, NGA, nag

## Antillean Creole
### Etymology

From French gant.

### Noun

gan
* glove

## Bambara
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɡã˦]

#### Verb

gan
* to jump

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

gan
* hot

#### Verb

gan
* (transitive) to heat up

### References

* 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

## Dharug
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ŋan/

### Noun

gan
* reptile
* (specifically) goanna

### References

* Jakelin Troy (1993) The Sydney Language, Canberra, →ISBN, page 53

## Dutch Low Saxon
### Verb

gan
* Alternative spelling of gaon

## Garo
### Etymology

Borrowed from Bengali গান (gan).

### Noun

gan
* song

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish cen (“besides; without”), from Proto-Celtic *kina (“on this side of”); compare Middle Welsh am-gen (“otherwise”), Breton ken (“otherwise”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡən̪ˠ/, /ɡənˠ/
* (Munster, also) IPA: /ɡɑn̪ˠ/
* (Aran, also) IPA: /ɡɑn/, /ɡɔn/

### Preposition

gan (plus nominative, triggers no mutation in specific references but lenition in general references)
* without
* not (in conjunction with a verbal noun)

#### Usage notes

* In standard written Irish, triggers lenition (except of d, s, t) of unmodified nouns, e.g. gan phingin (“without a penny”). Does not trigger lenition of modified nouns, e.g. gan pingin ina phóca (“without a penny in his pocket”). In the meaning ‘not’, does not trigger lenition of either a verbal noun or on the direct object of the verbal noun, e.g. gan ceannach (“not to buy”), gan pingin a shaothrú (“not to earn a penny”).
* Unlike most prepositions, gan takes the nominative case of nouns, as shown by the lack of mutation of consonant-initial masculine singular nouns after the definite article, for example gan an plúr (“without the flour”), and the presence of t-prothesis of vowel-initial masculine singular nouns after the article, for example gan an t-airgead (“without the money”).
* Unlike most prepositions, gan does not form prepositional pronouns, but is instead followed by the disjunctive form of a personal pronoun, for example gan mé (“without me”), gan sinn (“without us”), gan é (“without him”).

#### Quotations

* 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127:ȷ imə šē leš gon ēn ńī ēkāl.[D’imigh sé leis gan aon ní a fheiceáil.]He left without seeing anything.
* 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127:l̄aurofŭī n̥ ʒēlǵə fōs əŕ fȧ nə ciŕə, ʒā mĭøx gn̥ n̄āŕə ə ve orī fuhə.[Labhrófaí an Ghaeilge fós ar feadh na tíre dhá mbeadh gan náire a bheith oraibh fúithi.]Irish would still be spoken in the whole country if you pl were not ashamed of it.
* 1899, Franz Nikolaus Finck, Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect], volume II (overall work in German), Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 128:hāniǵ šē ʒā rā, n̄ax mĭai šə sə mŭȧlə ən̄óxt agəs gon kūrm̥ ə ʒlakə fȳ.[Tháinig sé dhá rá nach mbeidh sé sa mbaile anocht agus gan cúram a ghlacadh faoi.]He came to say he won’t be home tonight and not to worry about him.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cen”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* 1 2 Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 127
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 428, page 138
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 38, page 21

### Further reading

* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “gan”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “gan”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “gan”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025

## Japanese
### Romanization

gan
* Rōmaji transcription of がん
* Rōmaji transcription of ガン

## Jawe
### Noun

gan
* tattoo

### References

* André-Georges Haudricourt et Françoise Ozanne-Rivière, Dictionnaire thématique des langues de la région de Hienghène (Nouvelle-Calédonie) : pije - fwâi - nemi - jawe, Lacito - Documents, Asie-Austronésie 4, SELAF no. 212, Peeters, 1982

## Latvian
### Conjunction

gan
* both, and

#### Usage notes

Used in pairs: gan jauna, gan skaista "both young and beautiful"

## Mandarin
### Romanization

gan
* Nonstandard spelling of gān.
* Nonstandard spelling of gǎn.
* Nonstandard spelling of gàn.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English ġeġn.

#### Preposition

gan
* Alternative form of gain (“against”)

### Etymology 2

From Old English gān.

#### Verb

gan
* (Early Middle English, Northern) Alternative form of gon (“to go”)

### Etymology 3

From Old English gān, ġegān.

#### Verb

gan
* Alternative form of gon (“gone”)

## Middle High German
### Alternative forms

* gēn, kēn

### Etymology

Inherited from Old High German gān, gēn, from Proto-West Germanic *gān.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (before 13th CE) /ˈɡaːn/

### Verb

gān (irregular, third-person singular present gāt, past tense gienc, past participle gegān or gegangen, past subjunctive gienge, auxiliary sīn)
* to go

#### Descendants

* Alemannic German: gaa, gan, ge, gi, goo, gu
    Swabian: gau, geha
* Bavarian: geh, gea, gean, gian
    Cimbrian: gian, ghéenan (Sette Comuni)
    Northern Bavarian: [ɡ̊ɛi]
* Central Franconian: giehn, gohn (northeastern Moselle Franconian), john, jonn (Ripuarian)
    Hunsrik: gehn, keen
    Luxembourgish: goen
* East Central German: gii, giin (Erzgebirgisch)
    Upper Saxon German:
    Vilamovian: gejn
* East Franconian:
* German: gehen
* Rhine Franconian: geh, gehe, gäh, gähe, gäj, gäje, gih, gihe, gej, geje
    Frankfurterisch: [g̥ε̃ː]
    Pennsylvania German: geh
* Yiddish: גיין (geyn)

## Middle Vietnamese
### Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *t-kaːn, from Old Chinese 肝 (OC *s.kˤa[r]).

### Noun

gan
* (anatomy) liver

#### Descendants

* Vietnamese: gan

### References

* Alexandre de Rhodes (1651) “gan”, in Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (in Middle Vietnamese, Latin, and Portuguese), Rome: Propaganda Fide

## Northern Kurdish
### Etymology

Cognate with Central Kurdish and Southern Kurdish گان (gan), Gurani گای (gai), Zazaki gaene, gainaene, Persian گاییدن, Middle Persian [Term?] (/⁠gādan⁠/).
In some dialects it's the animal equivalent of tê niyan (“to fuck; lit. "to put in, insert"”) or a meaner way of saying "fuck" by insinuating the person cursed at is an animal. That considered, the actual sense may have been "to breed" and derived from ga (“ox; bull; stud; any male cattle”).
In some dialects and derived terms it's used only for homosexual acts or prostitution.

### Verb

gan (present stem -gê-)
* to fuck, to breed, to have sexual intercourse, to copulate

#### Derived terms

* tev gan ("fuck up")
* xwe gê ("fuck yourself, fuck off")
* xwe gan bi paş va ("back the fuck off")

### Noun

gan f
* sex

#### Derived terms

* gan dan ("to whore oneself", lit. "to give sex")
* gander ("whore" lit. "sex-giver")
* ganganok ("sodomite")
* ganewî ("sexy")
* gan kirin ("to have sex")

## Nupe
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡã̄/

### Verb

gan
* to exceed; to surpass
    Èmì mi li gan èmì u. ― My house is cleaner than her house.
    U ge gan kpáátá. ― It's the best. (literally, “It is good surpassing all”)
    Gànsìkiya ligwa gankò. ― The truth washes the hands more than soap.

#### Usage notes

Used to construct the comparative and superlative.

#### Derived terms

* gangan (“to be too much”)
* ganganyí (“very much”)

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gān.

### Verb

gān
* to go

#### Derived terms

* anagān
* antgān
* bigān
* fargān
* ūtgān

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: gâen
** Dutch: gaan
*** Afrikaans: gaan
*** Javindo: ha, haat
*** Jersey Dutch: xân, xâne
*** Petjo: gaan, haan
** Limburgish: gaon

#### Further reading

* “gān”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gān, from Proto-Germanic *gāną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁- (“to leave”). The verb was defective in Germanic and may only have existed in the present tense.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɑːn/

### Verb

gān
* to go
** c. 990, Wessex Gospels, "Gospel of Saint John", chapter 21, verse 3
    Ðā cwæð Simon Petrus tō him, Ic wylle gān on fixað. Þā cwǣdon hī tō him, And wē wyllað gān mid þē. And hī ēodon ūt, and ēodon on scip, and ne fēngon nān þing on þǣre nihte.Then said Simon Peter to them. I want to go fishing. Then they said to him, and we want to go with you. And they went out and went in a ship, and caught nothing in the night.
** late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Seven Sleepers"
    ...hē wolde gān ūt of ðām porte......he desired to go out of the town...
** late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
    ...swā hwǣr swā hē ēode and hī ealle āstōdon ansunde ætforan him þe on ðām fænne ǣr lagon....wheresoever he went, and they all rose up sound before him, who aforetime lay in the mire.
* to walk
** late 10th century, Ælfric, "Chair of Saint Peter"
    ...and hē lēop sona cunniġende his fēðes hwæðer hē cūðe gān.and he leapt up immediately, trying his power of motion, whether he could walk.
** late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
    Sē wer meahte unēaðe þurh hine selfne ārīsan oþþe gān.The man could barely get up or walk by himself.
** c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 6:66
    Siþþan maniġe his leornungcneohta ċierdon onbæc and lenġ ne ēodon mid him.After that, many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.
* to enter
** c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 24:38-39
    On þǣm dagum ǣr þǣm flōde wǣron menn etende and drincende, and wīfiġende and ġifte sellende, ōþ þone dæġ þe Nōe on þā earċe ēode, and hīe nysson ǣr sē flōd cōm and nam hīe ealle.In the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they didn't know until the flood came and took them all.

#### Usage notes

* The expected present participle, gānde, is very rare. Instead gangende is almost always used, from the synonym gangan: Līf nis būtan gangendu sċadu ("Life is but a walking shadow").

#### Synonyms

* gangan

#### Derived terms

* āgān
* begān
* foregān
* forgān
* forþgān
* ingān
* ofergān
* ofgān
* on hand gān
* tōgān
* þurhgān
* undergān
* upgān
* ūtgān
* wiþgān
* ymbgān

#### Related terms

* gang

#### Descendants

* Middle English: gon, gan, ga, goo, goon, go
** English: go
** Geordie English: gan
** Middle Scots: go, goe, gone
*** Scots: gan, gae, ga, gang
** Yola: goe, gow, go, goeth (influnced by Irish silent -th)

## Old Frisian
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gān.

### Verb

gān
* to go

#### Descendants

* Saterland Frisian: geen (simple past, past participle of gunge)
* West Frisian: gean

## Old High German
### Alternative forms

* gēn — see there for more

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gān.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡaːn/

### Verb

gān
* to go

#### Usage notes

* The ā-form was found especially in Alemannic and in western Franconian. In the former, the vocalism was regularized early on (du gās, er gāt); in the latter, the West Germanic vowel alternation (du geis, he geit) has been preserved even to this day.

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: gān
** Alemannic German: go, gon
** Central Franconian: jonn, john, gohn

### See also

* stān

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gān.

### Verb

gān
* to go

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: gân
** Dutch Low Saxon: gan, gaon
** German Low German: gahn
** Plautdietsch: gone

## Salar
### Etymology

Cognate with Turkmen gan.

### Pronunciation

* (Xunhua, Qinghai, Ili, Xinjiang) IPA: /qɑn/

### Noun

gan
* blood

#### Derived terms

* ganağusı (“to bleed”)

### References

* Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “gan”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 460
* Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “gan”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 218
* 马伟 [Ma Wei], 朝克 [Chao Ke] (2014) “gan”, in 撒拉语366条会话读本 [Salar 366 Conversation Reader]‎, 1st edition, 社会科学文献出版社 [Social Science Literature Press], →ISBN, page 109
* Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “gan”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 104

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* gae, ga, gang

### Etymology

From Northern Middle English gan, from Old English gān (“to go”). Past tense supplied by Old English wenden (“to wend”).

### Verb

gan (third-person singular simple present gans, present participle gan, simple past went or wett, past participle been)
* to go

## Scottish Gaelic
### Pronoun

gan
* them (direct object)
    A bheil sibh gan creidsinn? ― Do you believe them?

#### Usage notes

* Before words beginning with b, f, m or p gam is used instead.

#### Related terms

* ga
* gad
* gam
* gar
* gur
* iad

## Sumerian
### Romanization

gan
* Romanization of 𒃶 (gan)

## Ternate
### Etymology

From older gani.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɡan]

### Noun

gan
* Alternative form of gani (“louse”)

### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English gun.

### Noun

gan
* gun

## Turkmen
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kān (“blood”). Cognate with Turkish kan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡaːn/

### Noun

gan (definite accusative gany, plural ganlar)
* blood

#### Derived terms

* gan almak
* gan dökmek
* gan ýuwutmak
* gany gaçmak

### Further reading

* “gan” in Enedilim.com
* “gan” in Webonary.org

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *t-kaːn, from Old Chinese 肝 (OC *s.kˤa[r]) (SV: can). Attested as gan in the Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum (1651). Cognate with Chut [Rục] təkaːn¹ ("bold").
Displaced native lòm, now only found in the compounds đỏ lòm and chua lòm.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [ɣaːn˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [ɣaːŋ˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [ɣaːŋ˧˧]
* Audio (Saigon):(file)

### Noun

(classifier lá) gan
* (anatomy) a liver
* (figurative) audacity; gall; balls
    to gan ― audacious
    nhát gan / gan thỏ đế ― chicken

### Noun

(classifier cây) gan
* (botany) Malus doumeri
    Synonym: sơn tra

### Adjective

gan
* hepatic
* courageous, brave, tough

#### Derived terms

* cả gan
* gan béo
* gan dạ
* gan góc
* gan ngỗng béo
* to gan

### Anagrams

* nga, Nga

## Volapük
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ɡan]

### Noun

gan (nominative plural gans)
* (male or female) goose

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Hypernyms

* böd
* nim

#### Hyponyms

* ganil

#### Derived terms

* ganablöt (“breast of goose”)
* ganafoad (“goose liver”)
* ganafoadabastet (“pâté de foie gras, goose liver pâté”)
* ganalecek (“goose-pen, enclosure for geese”)
* ganaleplüm (“goose quill”)
* gananäst (“goose's nest”)
* gananög (“goose's egg”)
* ganapinod (“goose fat”)
* ganapüladil (“goose giblets”)
* ganaskin (“goose skin”)
* ganigaledan (“gooseherd”)
* nifagan (“snow goose”), Chen caerulescens

#### See also

* barnig (“brant goose, brent goose”), Branta bernicla

## Welsh
### Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh cant, from Old Welsh cant, from Proto-Celtic *kanta. Cognate with Breton gant and Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “against; downwards”).

#### Pronunciation

* (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA: /ɡan/
** (North Wales, colloquial) IPA: /ɡɪn/
* (South Wales) IPA: /ɡan/
* Rhymes: -an

#### Preposition

gan (triggers soft mutation)
* (North Wales) used with bod to indicate possession
    Synonym: gyda
    Mae gen i wallt hir.I have long hair.(literally, “Long hair is with me.”)
* by (after a passive construction)
    Cafodd y car ei ddwyn gan ddau llanc.The car was stolen by two youths.
* by (authorship)
* used with verbal noun to indicate an action simultaneous with that of the main verb, while, whilst
** King, Gareth (1993) Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars), London and New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 131:
    Aeth o gwmpas y stafell gan ofyn yr un cwestiwn i bawb.He went around the room [while] asking everyone the same question.

##### Usage notes

See gan on Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru for more information.

##### Inflection

| | Singular | Plural |
| First person | gennyf | gennym |
| Second person | gennyt | gennych |
| Third person | ganddo m ganddi f | ganddynt |
| | Singular | Plural |
| First person | gen i, gin i | gennyn ni, ganddon ni, gynnon ni |
| Second person | gen ti, gin ti | gennych chi, ganddoch chi, gynnoch chi |
| Third person | ganddo fe/fo, gynno fo m ganddi hi, gynni hi f | gennyn nhw, ganddyn nhw, gynnyn nhw |

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡan/
* Rhymes: -an

#### Adjective

gan
* Soft mutation of can.

#### Noun

gan
* Soft mutation of can.

### References

* ↑ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “gan”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Wolof
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

gan (definite form gan gi)
* stranger
* guest

## Yoruba
### Alternative forms

* gẹ̀n (Òǹkò)

### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡã̀/

#### Verb

gàn
* (transitive) to disparage, criticize, belittle
    Synonyms: pẹ̀gàn, ṣáátá, ṣàbùkù, kẹ́gàn
    ọ̀tá mí gàn mí ― my enemy disparages me

##### Usage notes

* gan before a direct object

##### Derived terms

* aganni
* agàn (“critic”)
* ẹlẹ́gàn (“disparager”)
* ẹ̀gàn (“rebuke, criticism”)
* kẹ́gàn (“to cricitize”)
* pẹ̀gàn (“to rebuke”)
* ṣẹ̀gàn
* ìgàn

##### Related terms

* lámèyítọ́ (“critic”)

### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* gẹn (Òǹkò)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡã̄/

#### Verb

gan
* (intransitive) to become stiff, to harden
    kankéré ti gan ― The concrete has hardened

##### Derived terms

* Aganjú (“orisha of the wilderness”)
* ìgan
* agan

### Etymology 3
#### Alternative forms

* gẹ́n (Òǹkò)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡã́/

#### Verb

gán
* (transitive) to stub, to clear (plants or a forest)
    Synonym: ṣán
    àgbẹ́ gán' igbó ― The farmer cleared the forest

##### Derived terms

* agán
* gángbó
* gánlẹ̀
* gánpápá
* ìgán

### Etymology 4
#### Alternative forms

* gẹ́n (Òǹkò)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡã́/

#### Verb

gán
* to use something very sparingly
    Synonym: sún
    mo ń gán owó lò ― I am using money very sparingly

##### Derived terms

* agán
* gánlò
* ìgán

### Etymology 5
#### Alternative forms

* gẹ́n (Òǹkò)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡã́/

#### Verb

gán
* to hit something with a thrown or spun object
    mo ń gán owó lò ― I am using money very sparingly

##### Derived terms

* agán
* gángbó
* gánlọ
* gánpa
* ìgán

### Etymology 6
#### Alternative forms

* gẹ́n (Òǹkò)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡã́/

#### Verb

gán
* to tack or stich something together
    Synonym: rán
    mo gán etí aṣọ pọ̀ ― I hemmed the edge of the cloth together

##### Derived terms

* agán
* gánpọ̀
* gánṣọ
* ìgán

##### Related terms

* gbá (“to stich together the edges of a mat”)

### Etymology 7
#### Alternative forms

* gẹ́n (Òǹkò)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡã́/

#### Verb

gán
* to snatch something in the air, especially with one hand
    Synonyms: hán, wọ́n
    mo fọwọ́ gán bọ́ọ̀lù náà pákó ― I used my hand to snatch the ball swiftly from the air

##### Derived terms

* agán
* gánpákó
* ìgán